24.9% ▼ -16.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.7%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 24.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Halls Creek · Suburb / Locality
Language in Halls Creek
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 61.8% of people in Halls Creek, though a quarter of the population speaks another language at home. This is much higher than in most other areas, making the town more linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 24.9% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 18.4%. While this diversity is high, only 2.5% of people speak little or no English, a rate about the same as the state and national figures.
2.5% ▲ +95.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Halls Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50602/halls-creek/topic/language